@davevolek

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If we want to avoid endlessly repeating the same cycles after a crash, we must address all these forms of domination—political, technical, market, and productive. Only then can we hope for a true transformation, not just a return to the old order.

@davevolek Then we will head towards an inevitable crash.

@sz_duras #Marx will be useful in re-embedding the mode of production in society. This could be part of a first phase of post-work and post-polis re-embedding: the state (#Rousseau), technology (#Mumford, #Stiegler) and the mode of production (Marx) (re)embedded in society. This would open up the possibility of post-growth (#Saito, and others...), that is to say, re-embedding the market (#Polanyi) in society and society in the natural environment.

@davidorban Because a picture is sometimes worth a thousand words, here is one to illustrate the current embeddings and the desirable embeddings for a post-growth future. The trigger towards this post-growth future could be a post-work reflection, and should necessarily go through the post-political one (end of the city-polis, Michel #Serres). #postPolis #postGrowth #postWork

@davidorban But I have a feeling that #AI will only be used to maintain dominance and that workers will continue to build pyramids. It will go faster, until the whole thing collapses.

@davidorban #Anders explains us fear is necessary for survival, #Diderot spoke of natural anxiety pushing towards self-transcendence....think of #Nietzsche pushes us rediscover our #instincts, that is to say, the "Great Reason", a heuristic of #Jonas, which would allow us to organize #Benjamin pessimism... could we not anticipate the catastrophe outright (#Bravo, #Jameson, #Virilio, @cmoreldarleux )? Would we afraid of discovering #normality is the real #catastrophe @RebeccaSolnit ?

@sz_duras The accumulation of material wealth (#capitalism) must be seen as a continuation of #domination by the hoarding/centralization of knowledge/power by multi-millennial #technoBureaucraticSocialSystems. In the era of #colonialCapitalism, power slipped towards the control of #capital alone. In the industrial and post-industrial/neocolonial eras, we see a return to the #control of #management, #power is (again) in the hands of #managers (#Burnham), now capitalists. #postPolitics #postGrowth

@sz_duras An insurgent diplomacy of the living to develop a natural contract. (Bio)regional independence favored, post-political systems of representation framed by short and imperative mandates, popular revocability, and random selection, without any filter (with support/expertise). Climate immigration welcome. Post-Promethean post-growth in sight!

@sz_duras

Capitalist excess leads to imperialism (#Bataille, #Röpke, #Gramsci, #Arendt, #Joxe)

Imperialism prolongs and radicalizes primitive accumulation (#Marx, #Williams, #Amin)

But, this headlong rush is self-destructive (Bataille)

Ultimately, it paves the way for internal totalitarianism (Arendt), when society can no longer project its contradictions outward.

@sz_duras

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To truly imagine alternatives, we must dismantle these root structures—military and otherwise—and invent new forms of solidarity, autonomy, and collective power.

@sz_duras I think Georges #Bataille's analysis is correct: capitalist accumulation leads to either philanthropic giving or autophagic destruction. Since the last Marshall Plan, the second option has been chosen...

@sz_duras

6/6
The real #critique should not focus only on #capital or the #state, but on the very matrix of #modernity / #coloniality itself, as #Escobar, #Lugones, #Mbembe, and #Mignolo argue. Only at this level can we hope for true #decolonization of #knowledge, #institutions, and #subjectivities.